The first feature film produced by Studio Ponoc, founded by Studio Ghibli veterans Hiromasa Yonebayashi and Yoshiaki Nishimura, comes to UK and Irish cinemas in its English language form from Altitude Film Distribution.

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Dr. Steven Murphy (Colin Farrell) is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon presiding over a spotless household with his ophthalmologist wife Anna (Nicole Kidman) and their two exemplary children, 12-year-old Bob (Sunny Suljian) and 14-year-old Kim (Raffey Cassidy). Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existence is Martin (Barry Keoghan), a fatherless teen who Steven has covertly taken under his wing. As Martin begins insinuating himself into the family’s life in ever-more unsettling displays, the full scope of his intent becomes menacingly clear when he confronts Steven with a long forgotten transgression that will shatter the Murphy family's domestic bliss.

In The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Dogtooth and The Lobster director Yorgos Lanthimos has crafted a compelling thriller brimming with unsettling humour and creeping dread, steeped in Greek tragedy, existential horror, Hitchcockian psychodrama and riveting suspense. Darting confidently between genres to subvert expectations at every turn, The Killing of a Sacred Deer firmly cements Lanthimos in the pantheon of world- class auteurs and marks him as a cinematic provocateur without precedent.

The Killing of a Sacred Deer will be released on UK Blu-ray and DVD on 5 March 2018 by Curzon Artificial Eye at the RRP of £15.99 for the DVD and £19.99 for the Blu-ray.

If there are any special features, the press release is keeping strangely quiet about them.